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https://github.com/gizak/termui/
https://github.com/rivo/tview
https://github.com/Textualize/textual
In Ask HN: Stack for beautiful CLI tools like Claude codegizak
termui
Go2015–2025
gizak / termui
termui
Golang terminal dashboard
14Distinct people
14Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
13.6KGitHub stars
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
14 sourcesBeen using
https://fyne.io/
https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne
for years but will check this out
(
terminal but still great go guis:
https://github.com/gizak/termui
https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
)
Never used but should be in this list:
https://gioui.org/
https://mattn.github.io/go-gtk/
https://github.com/lxn/walk
In Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Gotermui: Golang Terminal Dashboard
17 points · Open discussionI used termui for a project and have no complaints.
https://github.com/gizak/termui
In Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for PythonThere is, as one might expect, quite a long history of such tools, since text-only interfaces were the norm in the olden days.
When I was a young one doing physics in the '80s, we used CERN's HBOOK[1] to do all our (statistical) plotting. Recently while working on a Common Lisp project I had a use for something similar, remembered HBOOK, and "rolled my own"[2] (much simpler version).
Yes, a nice clean graph in a GUI or PDF is cleaner, but if you're working at the terminal already or in a REPL, it can be nice to just see the output there.
At the risk of downvotes: I do wish this particular project didn't require a working Ruby / Gem installation -- nothing against Ruby, but I'd be curious if there was an equivalent stand-alone executable written in Go or similar... something like [3]?
[1] https://cds.cern.ch/record/307945/files/
[2] https
Read the rest
There's similar libraries for python[1], golang[2], rust[3]. Drawing on the terminal isn't that resource intensive so I'd stay in whatever ecosystem I have a reason to be in.
1. https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich
2. https://github.com/gizak/termui
3. https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
Notably absent is the JVM. Another victim of startup time I imagine.
In Blessed: Curses-like library with high level terminal interface API for Node.jsLooks cool, but nothing much happens for me. I used brew to install go, then ran the following:
% type -a go
/usr/local/bin/go
% cd tsukae
% go get -d ./...
go: downloading github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.0.0
% go run main.go
o: downloading github.com/spf13/cobra v1.1.3
go: downloading github.com/gizak/termui/v3 v3.1.0
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.2
go: downloading github.com/nsf/termbox-go v0.0.0-20190121233118-02980233997d
go: downloading github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap v0.0.0-20150314170334-ad45545899c7
go: downloading github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
...a whole lot of usage information...
...but nothing useful (not a go person, so, YMMV)....
Any ideas?
FYI,
% go version
go version go1.16 darwin/amd64
In Show HN: Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usageDoes anyone have a recommendation for implementing an equivalently flashy terminal dashboard in golang?
https://github.com/gizak/termui ?
https://github.com/mum4k/termdash ?
In Building Rich Terminal Dashboardstermui – Golang terminal dashboard
2 points · Open discussionAnother one I came across recently was termui: https://github.com/gizak/termui
In Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in GoThere's a few...
https://github.com/gizak/termui
https://github.com/gizak/termui
https://github.com/nsf/termbox
But they could all probably be a bit better.
In Ctop – commandline monitoring for containersAnother alternative that provides a higher-level interface with widgets is https://github.com/gizak/termui. I used it to build sparkyfish, my open source console-based network speed tester: https://github.com/chrissnell/sparkyfish
In Termbox-Go – A minimalistic Go curses libraryTermui – Go terminal dashboard
347 points · Open discussionTermui: a Go command line dashboard
1 points · Open discussion